Depending on the nature and goals of your blog, there are a few different ways you could determine the “best” articles. I’m not really selling anything here and don’t bother tracking conversions through to the How to SEO Your Site ebook page, nor to the SEO consulting page (which is likely going to come down soon since I’m too busy to offer phone consultations these days).

For me, success is primarily about page views, i.e., which articles caught your eyes enough to click through and read, to share with your friends, etc. So I was just checking Google Analytics and decided to make a list of the articles that I published in 2012 with the most page views. And then, just for fun, I made my own subjective list of what I thought were the most important articles that didn’t make the top five page views.

How Followable are You on Twitter? — with so many small businesses struggling to make Twitter work for them, I think tweet variety/quality is an important concept to understand because no customer wants to follow a self-promotional spammer

Most Important Content of 2012

Ultimately, though, the most important thing that happened around here in 2012 was YOU. Beyond the articles above, we’ve had some great discussions on many other articles (here, here and here, for example).

So as 2012 wraps up, I’m grateful that you read what I write and always make it better with your excellent comments and discussions.

I’ll echo what Dana said above. I really enjoy your posts AND your monthly roundup posts where you’re very kind to do a lot of the legwork for us to find the signal in the noise. It’s valuable service and I’m always sure to check them out and find what I may have missed.

I believe I have been missing out on a great resource this year. I’m reading a two of the articles you have listed (Website over Facebook and Twitter and New SEO), and I think a couple more will have to be added to my to-do list. I will also be checking back in the future so as not to continue missing out. Thanks for the informative posts.